Manufacture of stucco flowers.



No. 657,006. Patented Aug. 28, |900.

T. REINHERZ.

MANUFACTURE 0F STUCCO FLOWERS.

(Application led Aug. 23, 1897.)

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Nrrn' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lVlANUFACTURE OF STUCCO FLOWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,006, dated August28, 1900.

Application filed August 23, 1897.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THERESE REINHERZ, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, residing at Munich, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire,have invented a certain new and useful Process for the Manufacture ofStucco Flowers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of stucco ornaments, and itconsists, substantially, in such features of improvement as willhereinafter be more particularly described.

Stucco ornaments representing flowers, leaves, twigs, clusters,garlands, and the like have heretofore been produced either by castingthem in plasteror molding them by hand, and it is a class of workrequiring a high degree of skill and artistic attainment,andconsequently involves considerable expense.

The purpose of the present invention is to utilize the forms and objectsalready existing in nature for the manufacture of stucco devices orornaments, and under this invention I do away with a considerable amountof skill heretofore required, and consequently cheapen the cost ofproduction of such embellishments.

Instead of artificially casting or molding stucco flowers, leaves,twigs, or other vegetable or organic forms I make such ornamentsdirectly from the objects as they occur in nature, and I am enabled bymy present invention to utilize both the objects themselves andreproductions thereof either for decorative or architectural purposes,orboth, as occasion may require.

My present invention is intended more particularly as an improvementupon the process described and claimed in my former Letters Patent, No.417,284, granted on the 17th day of December, 1889, and the presentinvention is distinguished therefrom in a manner hereinafter more fullyunderstood, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l is a perspective View of a natural object, such as aleaf,when treated in accordance with my present invention, the said viewindicating the leaf with its applied backings of stucco paste and fabricmaterial. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view Serial No. 649,258.(No specimens.)

of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, showing the leaf afterthe backings of adhesive and fabric materials have been removedtherefrom and also showing the leaf as coated with a shellac solution.Fig. 4 is a perspective view and a longitudinal sectional view of thebackings after the same have been removed from the back of the leaf andalso aftersaid backings have received their covering of stucco paste andcoating of shellac solution. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of thecombined adhesive and fabric backing after its removal from the leaf andshowing the same to be an exact reproduction of the` leaf as to form,said backing being provided with a covering of stucco paste minus theshellac coating.

Under the invention covered by my former Letters Patent referred to Icoat the back of any natural object-as a leaf, for instancewith anadhesive and hardening material either of an organic or inorganicnature, using therefor a suitable mixture or combination of substances.Upon such coating I place a backing composed of textile fabric orsimilar' material, and this backing is also coated with the same or asimilar adhesive and hardening material. This substantially completesthe process, and natural objects thus treated are rendered suitable asornaments for decorative and similar purposes. Under my presentinvention I not only preserve the natural object or leaf both as tocolor and form for decorative and similar purposes, but I also obtain,substantially, an identical reproduction of the object, possessing allits delicacy of outline and modulation of surface for architectural orstucco purposes. Thus I enlist nature into my service as the modeler anddelineator of my architectural or stucco ornaments While preserving andutilizing the natural pattern.

In carrying my present invention into ef n feet I take an organic formor object occurring in natu re-such as a natural flower, leaf, twig, orthe like-and I coat the part of its surface which is to remainunexposed-that is, the back thereof in the case of a leaf or petalA-vvith a stiffening-paste a, but take care not to coat the surface b,which is to remain exposed, since this latter surface is to remainintact. The stiffeningpaste a is pref- IOS erably applied by brushing itover the desired surface, and such paste may consist of parafn, which isapplied while in a warm melted condition, the same hardening afterapplication. A preferable stiffening-'paste is a stucco compound which Iprefer to makev in the form of a plaster-and-chalk paste saturated withglue. 'Ihis paste is ordinarily prepared in the following proportions:glne,-sixty grams; water, eighteen hundred cubic centimeters; boiledplaster-of-paris, two thousand one hundred and sixty grams; chalk, fourhundred and twenty grams. Said paste may be modified somewhat byadditions of acetate of lead, eggs, oil, rubber, glycerin, or colophony,one or a number of these being added in suitable proportions. I do not,however, limit myself to this particular paste, since any stucco-pastewill answer, my invention not referring so much to the nature of thepaste as to the process of making decorative and stucco ornaments fromnatural forms or objects. Any other paste backing, such as thatspecified in my Letters Patent aforesaid, will answer. It is evidentthat in applying this paste backing the same will receive on itsadhering surface an exact reproduction of the outline and modulations ofthe surface of the natural object or leaf. After the natural object orleaf has thus been provided with its paste backing the said backingbefore it has set has applied thereto an outer fabric backing b-such astextile material,paper,leather, wire-gauze, or the like-the said fabricbacking being caused to adhere to the paste backing at every part of itssurface. Thereupon when the natural object or leafis to be eniployed fordecorative or colored stucco purposes the object thus prepared is dippedinto a shellac solution c, after which the exposed surface of the outerfabric backing is brushed with or dipped into the stuccopaste saturatedwith gl ue,hereinbefore described,and producing a back coating d,whereupon the object or leaf is ready for use. Sometimes when thenatural objects are to be thus used it is desirable to wholly immersethe said objects in such paste mass. When,however,the natural objectsare not thus dipped, the same may be employed for themanufacture ofartificial garlands,wreaths,bouquets,&;c. On the other hand, it may alsobe stated in this connection that in some instances for these latterpurposes it is simply necessary to so dip or wholly immerse the saidnatu ralobjects themselves without previously applying' thereto thebackings hereinbefore described. For the purpose of obtaining a twofoldresult, however-that is, a result by which both the natural objects andreproductions thereof are utilized-I strip or remove the natural objectfrom its double backing intactly, and when the two are thus separatedthe hardened paste back presents in molded form an exact facsimile orreproduction of the general form and outline of the surface of theobject to which it had been applied. This separation of the backingsfrom the natural object is preferably performed prior to the immersionof'either the whole or any 'part of the prepared object in the shellacsolution; but subsequently each of the separated portions (the objectand its backings) is coated either on one or both of its surfaces withsuch solution in order to derive the necessary preservative quality. Itwill thus be seen that in so preparing the natural objects and thenseparating them from their backings I am enabled to utilize the objectsthemselves for ordinary artificial decorative purposes, while theobjects formed by combined fabric and paste backings are used .assubstitutes for architectural stucco purposes. In the use of the one Iget a natural colored effect and in' the other a plain but exact effectas to form and outline.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

l. The process herein described of manufacturing stucco ornaments, thesame consisting in applying to the backs of natural objects, such asleaves, flowers, and the like, a stiffening-paste, and then 'dipping theobjects into ashellac solution.

2. The process herein described of manufacturing stucco ornaments, thesame consisting in applying to thebac-ks of natural objects,- such asleaves, flowers, and the like, a stiffening-paste, then applying afabric backing, then removing the fabric backing then dipping theobjects into a shellac solution, and finally dipping or brushing overthe object with a stitfening-paste.

3. The process herein described of manu'- facturin g stucco ornaments,the same consisting in applying to the backs of natural objects, such asleaves, uowers, and the like, a stiffening-paste, then applying a fabricbacking, and then stripping or separating the object from said fabricbacking substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The process herein described of manufacturing stucco ornaments, thesame consisting in applying to the backs of natural objects, such asleaves, fiowers, and the like, a stiffening-paste, then applying afabric backing, thenstripping or separating the object from said fabricbacking, then dipping the same into a shcllac solution, and finallyapplyinga stiffening-paste to the surface.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

THERESE REINHERZ.

Witnesses:

EUGEN CUTTENRIC'H, EMIL I-IENZEL.

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